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IFAD in Morocco
Nowhere is the linkage between the environment and poverty more pronounced than in the fragile ecosystems where inhabitants are often compelled to degrade their natural resources and struggle for survival. IFAD’s drive to break this vicious cycle has often led to the development of innovative, replicable models.
A striking example is...
Morocco
2002
Book
Conversations: A Trialogue on Power, Intervention, and Organization in Fisheries
In the winter of October 1999, as part of a programme of ICSF, three persons converged on the Treasure Guest House in Accra, Ghana. They came from three very distinct parts of the world, each bringing along a different baggage of culture and upbringing. What they shared, however, was a...
Ghana
2002 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Journal article
Agroecology: the science of natural resource management for poor farmers in marginal environments
Throughout the developing world, resource-poor farmers (about 1.4 billion people) located in risk-prone, marginal environments, remain untouched by modern agricultural technology. A new approach to natural resource management must be developed so that new management systems can be tailored and adapted in a site-specific way to highly variable and diverse...
2002 - Elsevier Ltd
Journal article
Agroecology: the science of natural resource management 5 for poor farmers in marginal environments
Throughout the developing world, resource-poor farmers (about 1.4 billion people) located in risk-prone, marginal environments, remain untouched by modern agricultural technology. A new approach to natural resource management must be developed so that new management systems can be tailored and adapted in a site-specific way to highly variable and diverse...
2002 - Elsevier Science B.V
Magazine article
CONVEAGRO en Palacio: Los temas de la agenda
El 19 de febrero se concretó la reunión de la dirigencia de CONVEAGRO con el Presidente de la República, Alejandro Toledo, ministro de Agricultura, Alvaro Quijandría, Economía P.P. Kuczynski y del PROMUDEH, Cecilia Blondet. El objetivo fue presentar propuestas orientadas a superar la falta de mercado y rentabilidad para la...
Peru
2002 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Magazine article
Vicuñas en disputa
Informe acerca de la derogatoria del DS 053 por el cual se autoriza entregar rebaños de vicuñas a particulares, misma que perjudica las comunidades campesinas altoandinas en cuyas tierras habita la especie.
Peru
2002 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Magazine article
Desafíos para una política de desarrollo de Internet en el Perú
Sociedad rural y sociedad de la información
Plantea los problemas por los que pasa la sociedad rural para poder integrarse a la sociedad de la información, puesto que dentro de la red no se encuentran herramientas ni contenidos para el ámbito rural.
Peru
2002 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)
Report
Farmers and Farm Families in Northern Ireland
With a shift in emphasis away from policies which concern mainly the traditional agricultural activities and towards those which address the social dimension of farm families, it became evident that there were significant gaps in the information basis on which decisions were taken. This gap was highlighted by two Northern...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2002
Case study
Measuring farmers’ agroecological resistance after Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua
A case study in participatory, sustainable land management impact monitoring
A study using a participatory research approach and simple field techniques found significant differences in agroecological resistance between plots on “conventional” and “sustainable” farms in Nicaragua after Hurricane Mitch.
On average, agroecological plots on sustainable farms had more topsoil, higher field moisture, more vegetation, less erosion and lower economic losses after...
Nicaragua
2002 - University of California
Journal article
Lechería caprina y procesos de reconversión productiva en explotaciones campesinas
Un estudio de caso en el área de riego de Santiago del Estero - Argentina
En éstos últimos años, la incidencia restringida del estado a través de los programas sociales orientados al pequeño productor rural, han modificado tanto el espacio tecnológico como el propio espacio local. Uno de éstos senderos de transformación lo constituyen los procesos de reconversión productiva. En un área rural de la...
Argentina
2002 - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas (CONICET)
Book
Crédito para el desarrollo rural en Nicaragua
Un enfoque institucional sobre la experiencia del Fondo de Desarrollo Local
Enfocado en el tema del desarrollo rural local, este libro quiere introducir una visión sobre los problemas y oportunidades de las finanzas rurales, inspirándose en las dos corrientes de pensamiento del desarrollo. En primera instancia, esto implica que se elaboró una síntesis crítica de los elementos claves del enfoque institucional...
Nicaragua
2002 - Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Nitlapán, Nicaragua
Report
The role of women in the conservation of the genetic resources of maize
Guatemala
uatemala is located in an area which contains one of the highest levels of plant genetic diversity in the world. Its particular geography and types of vegetation are characterised by the fact that the country has 14 life zones. In addition, the Maya population which inhabited Guatemala before the European...
Guatemala
2002 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal
LEISA Revista de Agroecología, octubre de 2002: Información y comunicación rural
Este número de la Revista de Agroecología LEISA, contiene los siguientes artículos:
Información y comunicación rural
Sostenibilidad e información
Comunicación para el desarrollo endógeno
Retos presentes y futuros en la extensión agrícola
Comunicación rural para una agricultura familiar sostenible
El acercamiento de los centros de información a los productores agrícolas. Apuntes de una experiencia
La agenda de...
2002 - Asociación Ecología, Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes (ETC Andes)
Case study
Conservation Agriculture in development
The case of Africa
The rising world population is increasing the pressure on agriculture to produce more food. This is more so for the African continent, where it is not just about food supply, but also a critical factor in economic development, poverty alleviation and improving living standards especially in rural areas. On the...
Botswana - Brazil - Kenya - Namibia - South Africa - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2002 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
Conference/Meeting
Los pequeños productores y su participación en las agroexportaciones en Centroamérica
Documento del Taller Regional de la UNCTAD
El tema de la participación de los pequeños productores agropecuarios en el negocio de la agroexportación, es objeto de permanente preocupación y análisis. Sabiendo, o por lo menos asumiendo, que es una buena alternativa participar en los mercados externos, la pregunta es desde luego: Como lo pueden hacer los pequeños...
2001 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
Website
Designing and Disseminating Ecological Production Systems for Perennials: Organic Olive Production in Crete
In Crete olives are cultivated since antiquity, as archaeological evidence form the Minoan era shows. Olive production today occupies around 70% of total agricultural cultivated land. The landscape in most of the olive cultivated areas varies considerably. Olives are cultivated in coastal areas and often in sloppy orchards at the...
Greece
2001
Book
Medio ambiente y pequeños productores
Conceptos básicos y operativos
Este documento presenta conceptos básicos susceptibles de ser utilizados en el análisis de la cuestión ambiental en relación a la pequeña producción agropecuaria.
Los primeros tres capítulos tienen como base el documento Capacitación, Cuestión Ambiental y Pequeña Producción Agropecuaria: Conceptos Básicos de Ecología y Economía, de Claudia Natenzon (1997), cuya revisión...
Argentina
2001 - Proyecto de Desarrollo de Pequeños Productores Agropecuarios (PROINDER)
Conference proceedings
Implications of Zero Tillage Based Cropping Systems on Socio-Economy and Policy in the Agricultural Mechanization Subsector
This document contains the proceedings of the International Workshop on Conservation Agriculture for Food Security and Environment Protection in Rice-Wheat Cropping Systems, February 2001, Lahore, Pakistan,
2001 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Conference proceedings
Workshop proceedings new trends in wood harvesting with cable systems for sustainable forest management in the mountains
The papers in this publication were presented at the Workshop on New Trends in Wood Harvesting with Cable Systems for Sustainable Forest Management in the Mountains which was held from 18 to 24 June 2001 at the Forestry Training Centre in Ossiach (Austria) at the invitation of the Government of Austria and...
2001 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Smoke in the Water: Problems and Prospects for Developing Artisanal Fish Trade in West Africa
Fisheries, and in particular, the artisanal fisheries sector, is a vital source of livelihood for the communities that live along the approximately 4,545 km long coastline of West Africa. There are around 1.8 Million people, mostly women, directly engaged in processing and marketing fish in the region. Nonetheless, despite the...
2001 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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